most recent discovery of a shadow campaign at a press conference this morning. desay that the campaign was not run the way he intended it to be. council member david cantania and mary cheh here in our studios in the last hour called on the mayor to step down. let's first hear from cantania and then council member cheh. >> if i were vince gray, i would handled today differently. i would said regardless of whether or not i knew anything and i didn't, such a cloud has been placed over my government and my legitimacy as mayor that i believe it's in the best interest to end this distraction and i will resign effective tomorrow noon. that's what he should have done. but is he going to do it? no, it appears he's going to dig in. >> what did you know? how can you plausibly claim you didn't know. and if you didn't know, that's kind of damning of itself, isn't it? that people were acting in your name engaging in such fraud and you looked away? so i can't tell you how painful

this is for me, but i do think as a matter of restoring the faith of the people of the city in the district, that this is what we have to do. >> you'll remember cantania told fox 5 the night chairman kwame brawn resigned from office that it was time for the mayor to answer questions about his campaign or return to a private life. the mayor called those comments nonsense at the time, brian. >> matt, council woman cheh surprised many by making these comments. >> reporter: she said she had been approached by many today asking about the mayor. she was heart broken over n. she couldn't stop thinking about it. she think vince gray is a good man but didn't think he -- doesn't think he should lead the city any longer. >> three gray campaign aides have pled guilty to different violations related to its 2010 campaign. assistant treasure thomas gore pleaded guilty. two il-- to illegal campaign

contributions. howard brooks also pled guilty about using money to derail mayor fenltsy's campaign and eugenea clark harris pled guilty. one day after prosecutors said a d.c. man had suffered a terrible injustice in a 1981 rape conviction, the justice department announced it's looking at cases more than ten years ago that go back decades g. march fox 5 first reported the u.s. attorney's office here in the district was conducting its own review after learning hair analysis sent innocent men to prison. >> we're now not going to -- not going to limit to any certain examiners but try to go back and look at all prior convictions where hair analysis was used to identify a defendant regardless of what the specific examiner was.

to see if we have any integrate. >> paul wagner has more on in nationwide review. >> reporter: i'm joined by jim who has extensive knowledge in reviewing cold cases and has worked very closely with the f.b.i. over the years. jim, what kind of an undertaking is this going to be to review all of these cases nationwide? >> this is huge. this is fraught with problems as well because so often, emily with the older case -- especially with the older cases, the files are either missing or been destroyed. the evidence is no longer there. and you really need all of that stuff to come together in order to come to some sort of definite conclusion one way or the other. >> reporter: in the last three years, we've seen three d.c. men, donald gates and two others all exonerated by d.n.a. after they were sent to prison in part with hair analysis. anecdoteally, if you're just looking at three men in the district who were exonerated with hair analysis, what kind of exxon raiptions could there

-- exonerations could there be out there nationwide? >> probably hundreds of thousands. that's just the hair right there. i mean, we have all these other factors that contribute or cause wrongful convictions. mr. mr. odom's case, he probably would have been convicted without of the hair because of faulty procedures. if the d.n.a. weren't there, he would still be sitting in prison. >> reporter: to exonerate the people, you have to still be able to find the original evidence, correct? >> that's what the problem is. like i said, it's old. evidence often gets thrown away after the trial is over with. it's misplaced. so, yes, you need that physical evidence. but think of all the cases that don't have physical evidence. only a very small percentage of cases rely on forensic evidence that can later be retested. >> reporter: why did the f.b.i. give up on using hair analysis? >> well, basically d.n.a. was much better. they were starting to use d.n.a. on the hair and then they

realized that hey, the examiners were getting it wrong an awful lot of times. and maybe the science wasn't all that. >> reporter: thanks, jim. the department of justice is asking for assistance from the innocence project and the national association of criminal defense attorneys so they can have third party assessment of what they find. brian? the news edge on virginia now. the massive storm that pummeled our region two weeks ago didn't just knock out power to hundreds of thousands of people. it also disrupted 911 service in northern virginia for several days. the fairfax county board of supervisors sharon buleva asked the council of governments to investigate what went wrong and find solutions to avoid the problem in the future. joining us now is the board chairwoman. thank you for joining us. have you not figured out what happened here? do you need a full investigation? you probably have a pretty good idea, don't you? >> well, i was very pleased to receive unanimous support from

my colleagues on the board of directors and we will and are having an investigation into what went wrong with the major failure ever the 911 net -- of the 911 network, verizon network throughout northern virginia which very well could affect also maryland, washington, d.c. if it is not addressed. we are going to be looking at what precisely went wrong. we heard some of that from verizon today. we'll also talk about how can we make sure that the kind of redundancy and backup is in place so it doesn't happen again. >> is there not a redundancy in the backup system already in place? >> clearly the redundancy was not effective. so they -- what verizon told us is that they had backup generators and what not but those, too, went down. clearly that's not okay and we need to take a look with verizon at what they can do to

make sure that better redundancy is in place. >> how long is this going to take? when can residents know that the next storm that comes through is not going to impact their lives? >> we set a deadline for those -- for the investigation, the study and for the recommendations to come forward of october. so just a couple of months from now. the timing for this i think is very good because both the federal fcc and the state corporation commission has this on their radar screen right now. and so we get to work in partnership with those organizations to find recommendations, to find an action plan for what to do coming out of this major failure. >> we along with all the residents of northern virginia look forward to speedy results and speedy action as i'm sure you do as well. fairfax county board chairwoman

sharon buleva, thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much, brian. scientists with the u.s. geological survey hope to find out more about what trig triggered a quake a year ago in our area. 59.8 magnitude quake was centered in louisa county. straight ahead on the news edge, flag map. one town's controversial decision to ban american flags at grave sites. the guilty verdict for a wall street millionaire was too much to swallow. news about a little pill that led to his death in seconds. we're watching a couple of showers and storms out to our west. the good news is they seem to be diminishing. looks like this evening is going to be storm free around the area. i'll let you know how we're looking as we head toward the weekend. >> dave, it was fun baseball. >> sure was. the all-star game has come and gone but our nats made an impression on the big stage. later in the show the top three bryce harper moments of the first half the season.

trust me, it's worth the price of admission which of course is free. we're back in a moment. 

changes could be coming to metro's service. it would allow 15 minutes it trains in peak periods. there are talks of cutting service to routes fewer than 80 passengers we are car. a rail car typically has about 60 seats. metro leaders warn the plan is only in the beginning stage. a montgomery county police officer who died in the line of duty received a special honor today. a stretch of roadway along georgia avenue will be renamed after officer luke hoffman. he was killed in july '07 while chasing down a suspected drunk driver. >> i think it's only fitting that the community every day, the thousands of people who will drive up and down georgia avenue every day be reminded of

the sacrifice that luke hoffman made serving this community. >> hoffman was an outstanding officer who graduated number one in his academy class six years ago. he was just 24 years old. a texas cemetery gaining national criticism after banning american flags on grave story. the board voted to reduce clutter at grave sites. american flags rpg now only allowed to be placed on veterans' graves on memorial and veterans day. many people are outraged. >> a veteran didn't find two weeks out of the year to serve his country two weeks out of the year or four weeks if you count both holidays. if the relatives so desire to honor their veterans 365 days a year, it should be allowed. >> city officials argue the cemetery cleanup effort is a sign of their commitment to veterans and their families. the board agreed banning american flags was an oversight and will reverse the ordinance. just ahead on the news edge, it's the making of a made

for tv movie. a millionaire's mysterious and dramatic death revealed. the first several thousand people tested their bravery during the annual running of the bulls in spain. there were serious injuries during the first leg of the race. the animals knocked over several runners but all the injuries said to be minor.

it took just minutes defendant millionaire michael maren to kill himself but the public suicide was months in the making. we have new details from arizona. >> reporter: it was an e-mail he sent to his son that led sheriff's deputies to his

vehicle parked in mesa. insides they found this can of sodium cyanide. the conl obtainer about the size of -- container about the size of a large canister of coffee. it's meant to be used for extracting gold in mining. the deputies speculate he may have formed the powdery substance in a cup full and in front of our cameras swallowed at least one of them before collapsing to the fall. >> it's a toxin that poisons the ability -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: the chemical is so potent, that in just minutes, it essentially causes your organs to shut down. >> just before the cells die, they dysfunction. you can't breathe right. can't think right. your nerves can't work. >> reporter: dr. brooks says cyanide is typically what was used in gas chambers back in the day. a single pellet dropped in acid could kill someone very quickly. there isn't law against buying

cyanide. sheriff's deputies say the 53- year-old got a hold of it very easily last year. he purchased 200 grams from chemical supermarket.com for just $68. it was fed exed to his home in chandler. >> did he order this product to wait till court and had the intention, premeditation to commit suicide in the courtroom in front of the cameras? i don't know. i can't read his mind. >> reporter: but deputies do point out that e-mail he sent to his son foreshadowed what happened. he wrote, if things don't go well in court, his will is in place. hump day? >> we're looking forward toward the weekend. you know what? i'm guaranteeing you it will not be as hot this weekend as it was last weekend. that's not saying much but i do think we're going to warm up a little bit, brian. tonight it's pleasant out there.

a live look outside. we are probably not going to have to deal with any storm, any outflow boundaries. no microbursts. looks like the forms we've been watching to the west are diminishing and it's a pleasant weekend. it's not humid. enjoy the break while you k. i wanted to show you radar. what we had been watching around hagerstown has diminished greatly. we think that's going to be the trend for most of the rest of the night as an area of high pressure is getting ready to build in. we'll take this back a few hours. you can see what was trying to develop out here kind of rained itself out over washington county. some leftover showers have moved up into pennsylvania. we have a mix of sun and clouds. i think mostly sun for the rest of this evening. the deck of clouds will probably stay out to our west. just in case you think rain has taken a leave of absence from the east coast, it has not. we have a lot of rain across the carolinas down into georgia and across into mississippi, alabama, and down into louisiana. the frontal boundary down there is continuing to focus that

energy well to our south. but for us, looks like we'll be dry tonight. 89 degrees was the high temperature. dulles was right there as well. bw purr good mar -- thurgood marshal at 90 degrees. still kind of toasty at frederick at 90. everybody else falling to the mid and upper 80s. 83 degrees for you out in martinsburg. 81 for winchester and 80 for culpeper -- 84 for culpeper and fredericksburg with d.c. coming in at 87. there's the boundary that is focusing the showers and storms to our south. what we'll see is over the weekend the boundary starting to come back to the north. it will allow more warmer temperatures to get in here for the weekend. cincinnati is up to 91 degrees. now st. louis at 93. not as brutal of a heat wave as we saw last time but we'll see some of the lower thes on working their way -- lower 90s working their way back into the forecast by saturday and sunday. notice the heat building in the west. 111 degrees in las vegas and 100 degrees at reno with salt lake city coming in at 96.

so for us kind of a settled night. isolated evening storms we've been watching to the west seem to be diminishing. it will be partly cloudy for most ever the night. temperature 70 degrees with light winds out of the southeast. tomorrow partly to mostly sunny. looks like a pretty good day. 88 degrees. seasonably warm but not too terrible in the humidity department. at 8:00 in the morning 74 degrees. by noon about 84. and still with plenty of sunshine at 5:00. a temperature of 86 if we do see anything at all, i think it will be very isolated and well to the west of d.c. again. so look at these temperatures around the region tomorrow. definitely seasonably warmer. our average is 89 degrees. so clearly several places will be close to that. and upper 80s for everybody else. a quick peek at the weekend. saturday about 90 degrees and sunday 92. maybe even a little bit warmer. and what we notice about the weekend is the moisture is increasing in the atmosphere. so that means it will feel more humid and any storms that do develop with the best chance being sunday will have a lot of moisture available in the

atmosphere. they'll be slow moving and could produce a lot of rain. so what we'll be watching for with any storms this weekend is the potential for some flash flooding. meanwhile five-day forecast, it looks like we're storm free tonight and tomorrow. only an isolated storm or two on friday at 87. friday doesn't even look as stormy as it did yesterday. so looks like as we head into the weekend, kind of typical summertime fare with temperatures near or above 90. maybe up to 93 or 94 on sunday. and monday hot and humid, 93 degrees. it's creeping back, brian, but it's not triple digit heat. >> thank you. you can check the weather any time when you download the fox 5 weather app. we're going to look back at how the three washington nationals fared in last night's mid center classic. dave ross on -- summer classic. dave ross on deck. >> players can step into a seven-foot tall inflatable caged ball sent rolling down the lane to knock down six five- foot tall foam pins.

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dave ross with you. the nats are enjoying the final days of the all-star break. three nats were on display at the mid center's classic. -- mid summer's classic. >> stephen strasburg. and gio gonzalez. >> gio strikes out mike here. retired all three batters he faced in his second all-star appearance. strasburg making his debut came in the 4th inning allowing a single and a walk but got a little help with a double play.

meanwhile 19-year-old bryce harper entered in the 5th inning. look at those shoes. first at-bat he walked in those fancy shoes. later on the next batter is a player from the giants. watch bryce in the gold shoes picking him up to put him down. bryce would not score but you have to love the shoes. bottom of the 5th, mike napley with a runner on first. issues in left field. where did it go? where did who go? he's lost. no idea where that ball went. but the nl shut out the american league 8-0. with the 19-year-old harper making hipsry as the youngest -- history as the youngest player to make a position, i asked -- [ inaudible ] june 12, north of the border in skydome versus the blue jays.

this one, oh, my goodness. look how far this one goes. going to go off the black bettery sign estimated at 438 feet. play number two, in los angeles in his second major league game playing center field. thinks this is gone, right? young. -- wrong. he hit the wall. presence of mind to get up and get a double play at first. he was shakenned, not stirred. bryce would stay in the game because's' tough guy. the number one play so far in the first half, you remember this, his debut, he said welcome to the bigs on april 28. so bryce shakes it off and later on in the same inning, how does he get revenge? i'm stealing home and you can't stop it. bryce is safer. that's the way to make a good first impression. bryce harper is worth the price of admission. of course, brian, we couldn't accept that's a clone question because it wasn't a play but it certainly was funny.

>> dave ross, thanks for that. i guess we have a minute left. sue palka, take a look. >> i have just the five-day for you, my friend. that is -- maybe we need to do the 30-day outlook. as we work our way through just about the middle point of summer, we have a nice stretch of days coming up. i think tomorrow as well as tonight look like they will be storm free. the storms we were watching to our west have diminished so we're looking for a temperature tomorrow about 88 degrees. a few storms start to roam around especially for the weekend as we heat up. see you tonight at 10:00.